The Digital Fix: Music

Music news round up: w/e 3 August

Chas And Dave mark their 50th year together with the release of their first new studio album for 27 years.

Recorded at Abbey Road studios with Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry (Elvis Costello), Chas and Dave return to their roots with a collection of early R&B, skiffle and rock n’ roll classics - alongside new takes on songs of their own. Released under Warner Music; special guests include guitarists Albert Lee and Martin Taylor, Buddy Holly and The Crickets’ drummer J. I Allison and on keys Jools Holland and Hugh Laurie.

That's What Happens is released on October 28th.

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Frankie Rose has announced her recent signing to Fat Possum Records and confirmed her new album, Herein Wild will be out in the UK on October 7th.

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Suzi Quatro will play at the Play Misty Club, Amhurst Terrace, Hackney, London on 6th-8th and 12th-14th of September. The special 'Unzipped' shows will take the audience through her life in the world of show business with pictures, stories, video clips and some live music.

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Chase And Status have announced that their third album Brand New Machine will be released on October 7th. The album will be preceded by new single 'Count On Me', featuring vocals from Moko, on September 29th.

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Following a five-year release hiatus, The Fratellis will return on October 7th with new album We Need Medicine through BMG Records. New single 'Seven Nights Seven Days' is out on September 29th and tickets are now on sale for a November tour. Full details are as follows:

Six years since the release of King Khan & The Shrines last album, What Is!? (Vice Records), Idle No More will be released on September 2nd on Merge Records. Album track ‘Darkness’ has been made into a surreal stop-motion video and deals with some heavy issues: life, death, what it’s like to be shot out of a cannon.

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine (Bad Books, Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band) has announced the date for the highly anticipated dual release of Bulldozer and Bubblegum. The albums, fan funded through a Kickstarter campaign, will be released October 14th through Big Scary Monsters. The album was finished in April 2013, recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios in Hurley, NY and at Atomic Heart Studios in New York City.

The ten songs that comprise Bulldozer, Devine’s solo album laced with electric folk-rock and pop ballads, were recorded in L.A. from March to April 2013 and produced by frequent collaborator Schnapf. With Devine on guitar, Schnapf gathered a stellar group of musicians to back him—Russell Pollard and Elijah Thomson (Everest) on drums and bass, respectively; Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) on backup vocals; and Schnapf himself on guitar, mellotron, and percussion.